Cultural Heritage Advisor

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

About the Role:

Alcoa’s WA Mining Operations are located within the traditional lands of the Gnaala Karla Booja people.

The WA Mining Heritage Advisor will provide support the delivery of culturally appropriate outcomes for the benefit of Noongar people and Alcoa. This includes but is not limited to:

Ensuring Noongar cultural heritage is managed in a way that is consistent with Alcoa’s Cultural Heritage Management Plans and Noongar community expectations.

Ensuring compliance with cultural heritage management conditions forming part of Alcoa’s mining related cultural heritage approvals.

managing cultural heritage survey; assessment and reporting processes associated with Alcoa’s mining operations.

Implementing operation-specific cultural heritage management controls detailed in the relevant Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management Plans and/or approvals.

Implementing operation-specific cultural heritage management controls detailed in the relevant Post-contact Cultural Heritage Management Plans and/or approvals.

Ensure compliance with Alcoa’s overarching cultural heritage management, safety and community engagement policies and procedures.

collaborating with the Noongar Liaison Officer and Cultural Heritage Specialist to deliver cultural heritage and Traditional Owner engagement activities associated with Alcoa’s mining operations.

This position will require strong engagement with the surrounding local communities, working in close collaboration with Traditional Owners and Alcoa’s site personnel to ensure the identification and culturally appropriate management of Noongar heritage.

What’s on offer:

Career development opportunities to pursue your passion

Monthly Leisure Day

Benefits allowance

Performance related bonus (variable)

16 weeks paid parental leave scheme

Paid annual volunteer hours

Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities

What you can bring to the role:

To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone with:

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Mine site experience in relation to heritage management, and experience in heritage surveys

Sound knowledge of Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972, Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 the Native Title Act 1993, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Experience with Project Management and in undertaking a range of administrative duties with intermediate level MS Word, Excel, MS Projects and PowerPoint and GIS software.

Closing Date: Sunday 2nd April 2024